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How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water? What Can You Do?
by admin on May.28, 2009, under Medicine
You’ve likely seen the headline by now, or one like it; “Probe finds drugs in drinking water”. Recent scientific research has indeed found a wide variety of pharmaceuticals in our water, from sedatives to painkillers, from sex hormones to antibiotics. There are a plethora of drugs in our water supply. Are Small Doses of Pharmaceutical Drugs Really Harmful?The question remains for many, “how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water?” While a small amount get into the water from runoff of pharmaceutical plants and flushed pills, the majority of the drugs actually come from human waste. When we swallow a pill, only a small portion of it is absorbed into the bloodstream. The remainder is sent through the digestive system and leaves our bodies as waste. While the levels of drugs in… Continue reading
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